Deposit Considerations

Why deposit in Knowledge Core?

Knowledge Core provides access to the work that makes ERDC a leader in helping to solve our nation's most challenging
problems in civil and military engineering, geospatial sciences, water resources, and environmental sciences for the
Army, Department of Defense, civilian agencies, and our Nation's public good. Knowledge Core is where the ERDC's
Information Science and Knowledge Management (ISKM) Branch preserves the engineering and scientific research of our
organization.

What you get when you deposit your work in Knowledge Core:

Visibility

Making your work accessible via Knowledge Core will ensure more of your peers can find it and will cite it.

Permanent links

Knowledge Core technology ensures a stable online location for your work, with no broken links. Knowledge Core is as
reliable as a scholarly journal and as accessible as any website.

Preservation

The ISKM Branch of ERDC is committed to preserving your work in Knowledge Core for the long term, exactly as you
deposit it.

Comprehensiveness

Knowledge Core supports a variety of formats, and we encourage you to deposit not just the finished work, but also
related materials (including data, images, audio and video files, etc.). Beyond what a traditional technical report
or journal can accommodate.

Institutional context

As one of the most diverse engineering and scientific research organizations in the world, ERDC conducts research and
development in support of the Soldier, military installations, and the Corps of Engineers' civil works mission, as
well as for other federal agencies, state and municipal authorities, and with U.S. industries through innovative
work agreements. Knowledge Core places content in the larger context of the ERDC environment, side-by-side with the
research contributions of others in the ERDC and USACE Communities.

How to submit your work to Knowledge Core?

Technical reports and other publications that go through the ERDC publication process will be automatically included
in Knowledge Core. If you are an ERDC employee and have content that is of research or historical value, contact us for information about how to deposit your work in the
Knowledge Core.

Can I deposit confidential information?

No. Submitting work to Knowledge Core requires you to attest that the work contains no confidential or proprietary
information. Confidential information includes data that can uniquely identify someone, such as a Social Security
number, credit card number, or driver's license number. Proprietary information is information, such as patentable
information, that is owned, or may be owned, by someone else.

Access Considerations

Can I limit access to my work in Knowledge Core?

By default, material deposited in Knowledge Core will be openly accessible worldwide. Content that is restricted use
is on a secured website which requires a USACE or ERDC issued DoD Common Access Card (CAC). See Knowledge Core Access Policy for more details.

What are the advantages of openly accessible content in Knowledge Core?

Continual and rapid worldwide access to your work, for yourself and others, at any time and from any place.

Increased visibility: your work can be easily shared with and discovered by others, increasing its potential use
and impact.

Assigned a single, permanent URL: your work can be clearly and easily referenced by yourself and others, in
subsequent research, resumes, job applications, etc.

Public and immediate association of your name with your ideas and research. This not only gives you credit and
helps build your reputation, it also makes it difficult for others to appropriate your ideas without giving you
credit.

Knowledge Core Communities and Collections

What are Knowledge Core communities and collections?

Communities and collections are the structuring mechanisms by which Knowledge Core content is arranged. Communities
may contain any number of other communities (called "sub-communities") and any number of collections, but they don't
contain individual items (records, with associated files). Collections may contain any number of individual items,
but only items. Other than these restrictions, there is considerable flexibility in the arrangement of communities
and collections.

Top-level communities and sub-communities tend to correspond to laboratory or administrative units that produce
research and scholarly work. Collections can be organized around a topic, or by type of information (such as working
papers or datasets) or by any other sorting method a community finds useful in organizing its digital items. Many
types of collections are possible and will be considered on a case-by-case basis. To request a new collection,
please contact the Knowledge Core administrator.

Each Knowledge Core community and collection has its own entry page which can display relevant information, images,
and links for that group.

A collection may be administered by a Collection coordinator who acts as a liaison with staff at the ISKM Branch.

What responsibilities does a collection or community coordinator assume?

If a coordinator has assumed administrative responsibilities for an Knowledge Core collection or community, then that
Knowledge Core coordinator agrees to:

Understand and observe all Knowledge Core Policies. The
technological ability to perform operations that are not consistent with Knowledge Core policies does not
constitute permission to circumvent those policies.

Arrange for deposit and description of content.

Educate depositors to their collection about these policies.

Establish submission and access guidelines for their collection.

Make decisions about collection and sub-collection definitions and names.

Clear copyright for items deposited when copyright owner is other than author(s) or ERDC.